Would it? There would be greater contrast between the reinforcement and the ignoring of poor performance.
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I had to laugh at the little caption.
“If they each behave rationally they end up doing worse.”
I think you’re confusing high intensity with high impact. Taking weight with you on a jog shouldn’t, I think, make it much more effective as a cardio workout. It’s just going to be harder on the joints and muscles bearing the weight.
A stationary bike would be a good alternative if one is having joint issues.
Wouldn’t killing be better described in this context as coercion? Which feels distinct from persuasion, to me.
I think it might be better to have both options be vote up. Seems the first voter was confused. If I vote now it will look as if nobody has voted.
There’s also the problem of the vote down option being hidden.
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I’d suggest not giving her a book overtly about atheism. Something more broadly about skepticism would be a better choice I think. The Demon-Haunted World gets a lot of recommendations, though I haven’t actually read it myself.
Why is a government more likely to cover preventative care? If the argument is it’s cheaper, a private insurer or individual paying out of pocket has just as much, if not more, incentive to pay for it.
Many forms of contraceptives are already free from non-profits. And they’re pretty cheap otherwise. I don’t think mandating that insurance cover contraceptives would affect their use very much.
Anybody had success in dealing with acne?
Using surgical tools like a scalpel is a grey area for piercers. Operating with these instruments, or any kind of anestheia, could be classified as practicing medicine. Without a medical license, a piercer who does this is technically committing assault on the person getting the implant.
It seems likely to me that assault isn’t involved in this at all, it’s just illegal to buy or administer anesthetics without a medical license.
That post wouldn’t exist if the karma penalty hadn’t been implemented.
Wouldn’t negative income tax be a fairly strong incentive to stay/become unemployed for those near the cut-off?
Now, I’m not addressing those that say morality is subjective and those that live solely for themselves.
I’d wager those not addressed are more numerous than you think, especially among lurkers.
I’m not confident that this better accounts for the disparity between your expectations and the survey numbers than confused altruists, but the thought occurs.
The issue is whether you should attempt to impose your morality, by force if necessary, on another human who doesn’t agree with it.
The implication being moral absolutists think morality should be imposed by force? That seems far from being universally true, not least in rationalist circles.
Anyway, the point of contention isn’t which moral ideas win or lose, but which, if any, are true.
Agreed. Hence “if any”. So why start talking about imposing morals?
I don’t disagree in any regard. I still fail to see how this is relevant to the admitted point of contention;
whether calling moral ideas “true” or “false” is a category error.
As an aside, I infer that you think imposing one’s morals on another would be wrong. Is that not a moral absolute itself?
No. Temperature is not heat.
It’s relevant because it determines whether the question matters.
Then it seems clear to me that the question shouldn’t matter to you. Objectivists may be interventionists at a higher rate than relativists, but that bears no relation to which position is true.
No, not wrong. But having a different set of consequences.
That set of consequences being unpreferred, presumably. What is that if not an expression of (relative) wrongness?
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